LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr J. R. Macdonald has been appointed Receiver of Land Revenue for the Land District of Nelson. It is notified in the latest issue of the "New Zealand Gazette" that the closing hours for certain shops in Nelson have been fixed as follows:— Booksellers and newsagents, Mondays, Tuesdays', Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 6 p.m., Fridays at 9.15 p.m., and Saturdays at 1 p.m. ; tailors, mercers, drapers, and boot and shoe imporUva. t%nd bootinakcrs, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., Fridays at 9.35 p.m., the weekly half-holiday from Saturday at 1 p.m. ; chemists, druggists, and herbalists, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 8 p.m., Friday at 10 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m., and Saturday nights at 9 o'clock. New Year's and Christmas Eve are exempted, and where a holiday falls on Friday, then Thursday is to be the late night. A meeting of the provisional dirce-toi-6 of the Nelson Freezing Company, Ltd., was held yesterday. The sccretaiv reported that about 2900 shares had been applied for, but that the solicitor had been unable to obtain the signature of one of the directors who was away, and had consequently not been able to register the company. The solicitor was instructed to register during the week, and it was decided tt hold another meeting next Monday, tr make the allotments. On the motion of M'- Corrigan, seconded by Mr R«use ; it was decided to insert a clause in the articles of association giving th< directors power to grant shareholder doing business with the company preference to such extent as the/ might deem desirable ovev non-shar ; holders. The- effort to get £20,0C0 worth of shares taken up will be continued. Me Liley, Master of the Old People's Home, gave the inmates an entertainment last evening on the phonograph. Et was most diverting and entertain ing. Mr Alexander White, an old ant! highly esteemed resident of Ngatimoti. died on Thursday last. Deceased war born at Abdee, Fifeshire, in 1835, ant' vhen 20 years of age. he left Scotland for the Victorian goldfields, where he followed his profession of engineer. He wm in charge of the first engine that ran between Ballarat and Melbourne. Late- in the sixties Mr White left Victoria for the West Coast, and went into business at the Ahaura, in the Grey Valley. Ha remained there until his marriage in 1874, to Miss Sutcliffe, of Motueka., and then in company with his wife, went on a holiday trip to Scotland, being away two years. On returning, the late Mr White took up land at Ngatimoti, and followed farming pursuits until a few months before his death. The deceased leaves a widow and family of seven daughters (three of whom are married) and three sons. The married daughters are Mrs Turnbull, of Riwaka; Mrs Groom, of Rahotu; and Mrs Guy, of Pung&rehu. The deceased took a keen interest in Freemasonry, and was one of the charter members of Lodge Motueka. The remains were interred in the Waiwero Cemetery on__ Saturday last, and tha funeral was one of , the largest ever seen in the Ngatimoti' district. The Church of England burial service was read by the Rev. A. Grace, and the Masonic service by Wor. Bro. Jenkins, W.M. of Lodge Motueka. The widow and family will have widespread sympathy in their bereavement. Mr C. Dencker, of Wangamoa, had an exciting and by ho means pleasant experience with a ten-pointer stag the other day. He. saw the animal's horns : entangled in some wild clematis, and he went forward io assist its efforts to extricate itself, when the ! stag attacked him furiously. Fortunately Mr Dencker was armed with a : grubber, and with this he defended himself as long as possible, striving to do so without injuring the beast. The attacks by the stag, however, became so fierce that Mr Dencker was obliged to kill it. The hea3 is a good one, and it will fee «n Inteserfing memento and trophy.

The annual meeting of the Bival Football Club will be held in the Camera Club Booms to-morrow evening, at 7.30. Members and intending membors are cordially invited te at 1 tend. Tha annual genera) meeting of the Nelson Hockey Club will be held at Mercer's Room on Thursday next) at 8 p.m. Intending members are invited to attend. . St, John's Methodist Choir will hold iair practice to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 o'clock. Members having copies of "Olivet to Calvary" are requested to bring them. The offioerß of the Firo Brigade desire to acknowledge the receipt of £4 4s for the members' fund from Messrs Savage and Sons in appreciation of the services of the Brigade at the recent fire at the firm 's premise". The usual monthly meeting of the Southern Star Lodge will be held in the Masonic Hall tais evening. A meeting of the Loyal Orange Lodge No. 51 was held in the Eechabite Hall last evening, for the purpose of opening a female branch of the Orangfe Institution in Nelsort. The women's lodge was duly opened, all tho officers being installed by P.M. Bro. Grimmett. The Master and officers of the senior lodges initiated a large number of women imto tho first degree, and several congratulatory telegrams were received from other lodges. The Nelson True Blues advertise a special meeting for to-morrow evening. At a meeting of the Eover Football Club recently it was decided to hold a dance on Friday, 20th last-., and to open the Club on the, 21sV. A good number of hew, iri'em'bors are joining the Club, And the membership should be Very strong this year. Everything promises that football will have maintained interest in the coming season. It is gratifying to learn that the funds of the Nelson Institute have benefitted to the extent of £8 by Dr Marshall's recent lecture at the School of Musiq on tho mountain systems of New Zealand. The latest thing in wanton and malicious mischief has been shown to us in the form of a new device for puncturing bicycle tyres. It is a pin, pointing heavenward, set into a small square of cardboard as a base. These pins have been strewn in Collingwoodstreet, between Bridge and Hardystreets, and the first intimation of their presence was a collapse of the machine of a messenger in the Government service this morning. As the mischievous persons, probably boys, who have set these bicycle traps, have been operating in the immediate vicinity of the police station there should be no difficulty in detecting and making an example of some of them. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Eyre-Kenny, S.M., the case Bisley Bros, and Co. against the Public Trustee and Mrs Elizabeth Kbit, being a claim for £182 12s commission on the sale of the Glen-iti run, ' was partly heard and adjourned, Mr Maginhity appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr Hayes for defendants. There was no sitting of the Court to-day, all Government Offices being closed in honour of St. Patrick's Day. Mrs Charles Frances (nee Fathers), of the Methodist New Guinea Mission, who has been visiting New Zealand on furlough, is leaving Wellington on Friday next for the Mission Station at Diobu, British New Guinen-. Five days' imprisonment for telling a telephone girl to go and hang herself seems a rather severe punishment (says the Vienna correspondent of the "Standard"), but such a sentence was recently imposed in a Vienna Court. It appeais that a merchant named Emil Altschul called the number of a cafe several times only to be told each time that the number was "engaged." Becoming impatient, and doubting the veratity of tho young woman at the other end of tho wire, he asked to be connected with ho "controller" in order to make a complaint. A moment afterwards a feminine voice answered, "Herr, inspector!" . Whereupon Herr Altschul shor*td into the receiver, "Inspector can go and hang herself; I want the controller." Altschul and his brother, who was present -at the tiime, denied having used such an expression — he only said thp inferior could tro away; but the court preferred to believe the tele- ! phone gin s story, and sentenced the defendant to five days' imprisonment. Notice of appeal was given. Once Paderewski wrote a little minuet iin the Mozariean style, which was thumped out on pianos and ground out of hurdy-gurdies from one end of the v.orld to the other. It was written, so :ha legend goes, when Paderewski was a ■>nr teacher in Warsaw, and was in- ■ i:JwJ t-c ahoiv a friend of tfhe cora--1 poser, a Polish poet whose name is only less impossible to spell than it is to pronounce, that Mozart could be .imitated. Truth to tell, Paderewski never cared much for it, and before he had become entirely famous he was so «ick of it that ho would have given a good deal not to have ■written it. But the public, likod it, and in his first tours | he w;;s compelled to play at again and again. Then he revolted and tried to forget it. But the public still remembers it, and wants him to play it. In 1 the last) few months his manager has rej :*ived more than a score of letters from ' different cities where Poderewsti is to play this winter, not asking, but demanding, that this minuet! should be placed' ou the programme. A Wellington ham and bacon curer j informed a Wairarapa "Age" reporter that in regard to the vending of bad hams an interesting thing occurred recently. He received a wire from a dealer up north stating that a thousand hams were purchasable at 3d a lb., md asking him if he would "stand in" md take part of the consignment. He telegraphed back, "No; would nob ".ouch at any price. Our business reputation above a few pounds profit on :hat class of hams." These hams, no doubt, had been badly cured, and, of course, were bad. They were purchased and are probably now being distributed sectionally over the Island. The hams are varnished outside, and to all -'iternal appearance are beautifully cured. In conversation with a Health Department official the reporter learnt ihot it was almost certain that the auctioneers who sold the hams in Wellington to the defendant in tho foregoing case will also be proceeded against. "It will," said the official, 'make those auctioneers who do not ■icrupl9 to sell diseased food, to be more careful in" future, and a warning ■j badly required.' Messrs Levien and Rollett advertise sales as follows: — To-morrow, at 1.30 p.m., furniture and effects on account of Mrs Preshaw, at her residence, Manukastreet; on Friday, 20th, at 2.30 p.m., salvage sale of painte on account of Messrs J. Savage and Sons. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. advertise the following Bales : — To-morrow, at Richmond Yards, stock sale; Thursday, at Tadmor, clearing sale of stock and implements and household furniture on account of Mrs R. Y. Ferguson; Friday, 20th, stock sale at Tapawera; Saturday, 21st, on account of Mr R. Y. Ferguson, farm at Tadmor containing 160 acres with 8-rmd house shop, kiln, 8-rmd. cottage, et<\ ; on same date racing privileges on behalf of the Nelson Jockey Club; Monday, 23rd, clearing sale of land, stock, implements, household furniture, etc on account of Mr Jas. Delaney, Stoke ■ and on Saturday, 28th inst., freehold section in Halifax-street, with 6-rmd iouse, stable, etc., in the estate of C. W. Bird, bankrupt. The half-holiday question is causing a good deal of interesb in the Dominionsome districts prefer Wednesday, some £aturday, stme Thursday, whilst ethers say it is immaterial provided the day is made universal. It is also said that he Government should have had backbone enough to fix the day and not shunt it on to the City Fathers. Howaver, among this turmoil and conflict of opinion we are pleased to say that everyone is agreed that Loek'a is th» best and cheapest place in the Dominion to furnish at, and you have one of the biggest stocks in the Dominion to select' ft«m. 'hose who 6uffer by closing on Saturdays, as well as others, can save money by buying at Lock's— Furniture, Linos, Carpets, Curtains, Ranges, Atlas Sewing Machines, Harlaud'a Pianos, Carpenter Organs, Easibak Lino Polishers, Britannia Air Rifles, Stylish Qo-Oarts, and Jnmperß fer the Babies. The household word is, "C* *<t Locks, '•'-!